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Thundersome · Boot Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 37

Why not? I don't get it. Surely it could be useful.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:52 pm

steve-0 · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 141

Because the person that also sent it to me sincerely asked for my complete confidence in the information and asked me not to disclose it before it needed to be disclosed.

As of right now, it still does not need to be disclosed.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:04 pm

Valentin · Greenhorn Joined: 09 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

I decided it was time to chime in.

Per the fundraising effort, I would ask players to consider the following:

1. Why would Patrick use an IG Facebook account to solicit donations when he could use his own?
2. The WordPress account has 1 post; no established credibility.
3. The contact e-mail is at Patrick's web design firm Homeostatic which, despite the fact that it appears to be legitimate (according to Google cache), is currently in a rather dubious state. This decreases credibility for his fundraising campaign.

Note the similarities between the ARG and the funraising campaign. The ARG employs maternal themes (and the purity/sanctity thereof). Despite the incoherent ramblings of Junko, the ARG evokes sympathy for the Junsui group through the oppression of an obscure Russian paramilitary group.

Is it not highly suspicious that just as the ARG seems to be gaining momentum and a steady fanbase, one of the PMs just "happens" to have a friend (a mother, no less) in Russia, in some dire circumstances and in immediate need of cash. Yes the story is tragic, but if it were of such great importance to Patrick/PMs, I think they would call off the ARG to save their friend's life instead of using it as a tool to garner support for a well-placed fundraising campaign.

This is already an ARG that seems to defy many established norms of the genre, so I would encourage you all to be extremely cautious with this recent development.

Of course, if anyone sees things differently, please share your views/thoughts on the matter.

- V

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:04 pm

Sevren · Veteran Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 139 Location: Spain

Well Valentin, you have good reasons and i agree with you. By the way, this seems like a sensitive matter, i doubt nobody would use a personal tragedy like this, because he know the resolve the people on this forum has, he also knows we are 95% of the people playing his game. If he used something like that as a "clue" i his game, i bet most of us here would quit playing.
Also, and this is just subjective, i wrote this:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:36 pm

scotgaz · Decorated Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 188

heres a site/pic of a RL Anna Isaeva

http://www.emat.ua.ac.be/personeel/Isaeva.html

fromRL site

from patricks site

they look like the same person

cant find anything about a car crash, maybe a russian speaker could scan russian newspapers

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:39 pm

nomad

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:02 pm

Sevren · Veteran Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 139 Location: Spain

On "Medicine for Anna" page:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:15 pm

steve-0 · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 141

i have confirmation that this fundraising effort is OOG and very, very real.

if you can, please donate, and please be respectful of this matter. let's move along with our next puzzle.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:19 pm

Brilliant · Boot Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 69

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:28 pm

Nighthawk

So there's a lock somewhere we haven't found...?

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:33 pm

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sergio37 · Decorated Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 159

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:40 pm

Sevren · Veteran Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 139 Location: Spain

How about starting a new thread? We should organize what we have so far. If i'm not wrong, it's just the picture and the 7 numbers. Maybe the steg doesn't works on the posted file because sometimes servers modify them, so, was it you Steve who had the original? Try with the same steg tool we used last time, the mozilla plugin.
BTW is it just me or the woman in the bed is on missionaire possition? ...or maybe she's "giving birth", that would fit the name of the file, "Conception", which could be a clue itself. So, the woman to the left, would be a "matron"?
Just speculating. Brainstorming, whatever.

EDIT: Sorry! I just noticed she's upside down Laughing

steve-0 · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 141

the snapshot was taken and sent within seconds, i don't believe it could have been stegged with something in SL and sent that way. it has to do with what's in the room and the name of the file itself.

the junsui have also listed the file name itself on their FB so that is the clue.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:53 pm

Sevren · Veteran Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 139 Location: Spain

Oh ok, i know little of SL, and I understood the picture was just a file she sent, not a screenshot made that very moment. The picture on the right up corner is gwaschemasch'e, right? But we have already collected many information about her. The guy sitting and smoking was you? Could you explain (again) how was the situation there?

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:15 pm

redct · Entrenched Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233

The junsui domain is now hosted on a nginx server, the main domain is Apache, which explains the different errors

**Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:17 pm

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